Here's a legislative issue where libertarian law professor Richard Epstein and Ruth Messinger, the left-liberal former president of Manhattan who is now the president of the American Jewish World Service, are aligned: the Royce-Engel amendment that would have allowed 45 percent of American food aid abroad to flow as cash rather than as American crops delivered on American-flag ships manned by unionized American sailors. Professor Epstein's weekly column has the details, which, though obscure, are fascinating as the story of how a program billed as "foreign aid" has turned into a program to help American farmers and unions.
Richard Epstein and Ruth Messinger
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